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I Have a Story, Too

January 23, 2013
By Madame BRONZE, Nashville, Tennessee
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Madame BRONZE, Nashville, Tennessee
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Favorite Quote:
"I am not even faintly like a rose." -The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald

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I am white
so I know no pain -- none
that matters, anyways

But on the inside
I feel brown -- I am
Russian, if that counts

A Soviet mestizo,
I have history, too -- even
though I am whiter than you

© Conor G., Harvard, MA

The author's comments:
I was pondering how because I'm white I "can't" have an interesting backstory or heritage -- we may not have fled Cuba, but my father and his family, all Russian, moved here from Soviet Estonia in the 1980s. I have a story, too.
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